Starting out

Tell us about your new PPV, show us some pictures, let us know how you did what you did!
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Lord Vader
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Re: Starting out

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I am very interested in how you swapped the headlight lenses.
Scrammbledeggs
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Re: Starting out

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Mjimport wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 7:20 pm Nice updates!

What wheel specs are those? I love a bronze wheel on white car.
They are American racing wheels 20x9 +35 fronts, 20x10.5 +40 rears
Scrammbledeggs
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Re: Starting out

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Lord Vader wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:50 pm I am very interested in how you swapped the headlight lenses.
Was pretty easy just baked the head lights in the oven and separated them. And then revealed them
Scrammbledeggs
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Re: Starting out

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Prc 68cc heads arrived yesterday, along with Solo performance exhaust, oil pump, btr v2 trunnion kit.
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Scrammbledeggs
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Re: Starting out

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Got the cat back on. Now time for headers and cat deletes
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Scrammbledeggs
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Re: Starting out

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Started working on the headliner today. Got a quote a few days ago for retinting the windows. These little guys were a big price increase cause of the labor to remove them before tinting. So I said screw it I'll chrome delete and vinyl over the window since you can't see out of it anyways.
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Mjimport
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Re: Starting out

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Scrammbledeggs wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:10 pm
Lord Vader wrote: Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:50 pm I am very interested in how you swapped the headlight lenses.
Was pretty easy just baked the head lights in the oven and separated them. And then revealed them
Do you mind describing your process a bit? What temps and for how long to bake? I’m trying this right now and the black plastic casing is deforming as I’m prying the seam apart but the adhesive doesn’t seem to be letting loose.
Thanks!
Mjimport
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Re: Starting out

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So I finally got them separated. I started with 200 degrees but increased to 250 degrees for a few rounds each. Working a flathead screw driver around the perimeter to get it started, back in the oven for 10 minutes, then working the adhesive more until it loosened up.
It helps having a few plastic pry tools and the screw driver but you have to be very patient. I could see this process resulting in broken tabs or cracked lense.
Scrammbledeggs
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Extreme patients. Apparently they glue these together way better than any other manufacturer
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Re: Starting out

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Today I got the headliner done
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